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Re: Launching Another App. from IDL [message #40404 is a reply to message #40398]

Thu, 05 August 2004 12:40

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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M. Katz writes:

> I'm wondering if on Windows there's an easy IDL command that is
> capable of launching an external application. What I'd like to do is
> to have an IDL widget button be able to launch Internet Explorer (or a
> better browser) and direct it to a specific URL. There must be some
> kind of ActiveX thing that can do this, no? I don't want to have to
> write a big external library and all that hooey.

This seems to work in all versions of IDL for a local
web page:

IDL> ONLINE_HELP, BOOK='C:/CoyoteGuide/index.html'

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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